The discovery of the Higgs boson is a major step forward in our
understanding of nature at the most fundamental levels. In addition to
being the last piece of the standard model, it is also at the core of
the fine tuning problem -- one of …

Recently I've been more involved in communication, education, and
outreach activities via the "Snowmass" Community Summer Study. One
of the goals we discussed was to get to the point that the public is
more aware of the fundamental particles. Ideally, we'd like something
as iconic as the periodic table (which …

I was a big fan of Zope early on (late 90's) and always wanted to do
some fun web-based projects. One of the more successful ones was
LaTeXWiki, which was one of the first wiki plugins where you could
write LaTeX. Unfortunately, I was always sufficiently confused about
some aspect …